Robin Varghese’s 3 Quarks Daily link (6/30/09) to a Boston Review piece purporting that, “over the past four years, Venezuela has witnessed alarming signs of state-directed antisemitism, including a 2005 Christmas declaration by President Hugo Chavez himself,” has engendered some homespun media criticism from a commenter logged-in as “Pepito,” who argues that “this canard about Chavez and Chavismo being anti-Semitic has been debunked several times in the past, but it comes backs very often.” In response to the excerpt’s lead example of “15 heavily armed men” who attacked a Caracas synagogue, “held down two guards, robbed the premises, and desecrated […]